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Cadence
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Known Problems & Solutions
opusdbtype
Affected versions: All
Affected DKs: st065 v3.0
Affected OS: All
Summary: When starting Cadence the following error appears "Mandatory Shell Environment Variable opusdbtype is not correctly set." Then a segmentation fault. Fix: Before starting Cadence software set the environment variable opusdbtype to empty string.
If using tcsh shell, setenv opusdbtype If using bash shell, opusdbtype=""; export opusdbtype
Lost in file system
Affected Versions: All
Affected DKs: All
Affected OS: Suse 9.3
Summary: When starting Cadence, the software reports an error message "Lost in file system." The working directory is set to a junk path. Fix: Make sure the directory Cadence is being started from has list (l) permissions for system:anyuser. To do this, run this command in the directory Cadence is being started from.
fs sa . system:anyuser l